[Dixielandjazz] Any ideas about the origins of "Move the Body Over"?

[david richoux]

I don't have any different answer for you, but while searching I found this
interesting blog by Ivan Huke (going by the handle "IvanTrad")
http://playing-traditional-jazz.blogspot.com/

He does go on a bit about "Tuba Skinny," but I think there is a lot of
useful info about songs and playing OKOM there! This may be old news for
some of you - I did a quick search of the djml archives and do not find his
name mentioned more than once - but searching this list is tricky!

Dave Richoux




On Sat, Aug 3, 2013 at 8:41 PM, Dick Baker <djml at dickbaker.org> wrote:

> Colleagues,
>
> P. T. Stanton's Stone Age JB recorded this title for Stomp Off in 1975,
> with composer credit to good old "traditional."  My only other recordings
> of it are by English bands (also credited to "trad."), but I just learned
> that it was recorded by George Lewis's New Orleans Stompers in the 1950s,
> so maybe the British bands got it from Lewis.
>
>